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Friday

August 22, 2008
Volume 103, Issue 1
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CAMPUS

A new fee
for a new year

Another change
starting this semester
is a new laundry fee
instead of the old
quarter system
| Page 7

PULSE

Do you have
the blues?

For those students
who may be feeling
depressed or anxious
from starting school
this fall, the University’s
Counseling Center
may be of some help
| Page 17

The best films
of the summer

ENOCH WU | THE BG NEWS

CALM BEFORE THE STORM: One last peaceful summer sunset over campus before the start of a new semester brings an explosion of activity. Nearly 16,500 students begin classes on campus Monday to kick-off the fall semester.

Check out which films
movie reviewer Aaron
Helfferich thought
were the top five flicks
of Summer 2008
| Page 17

Passing the torch

New interim president ready to run course of school year

Some sage
advice for
new students

FORUM

Your
school,
your news,
your paper

Executive Editor Tim
Sampson welcomes
new students and
columnists Phil Shurrer
and Levi Joseph
Wonder advise on
adjusting to college life
| Page 4

Students were not the only ones leaving campus this summer. While the graduating
class of 2008 collected their degrees and bid farwell to Bowling Green, then President
Sidney Ribeau was also planning his own departure from the University.
In an e-mail to the BGSU community May 7,
Ribeau officially announced he would be leaving
the University in August after serving 13 years as
president, accepting the presidency of Howard
University in Washington, D.C.
“This is a message I never imagined writing, but the time has come,” Ribeau wrote in
his farewell e-mail, calling the moment “bittersweet” and noting the University’s many

successes during his tenure.
The University Board of Trustees immediately
began the search for an interim president and
announced Carol Cartwright as their unanimous
choice at a special meeting June 6.
The board set her annual salary at $300,000.

FREDDY HUNT
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

See CARTWRIGHT | Page 2

WEATHER

PEOPLE ON THE STREET

Despite a disappointing bowl loss last season, the Falcon football
team rallies back for a
new season with a high
rank in its division
| Page 9

What advice do you
wish you had been
given freshman year?

ILLUSTRATION BY DANNY WHITE | THE BG NEWS

SPORTS

Falcons hope
to soar high

University sees lower student enrollment
By Alexandria Clark
Reporter

ELICIA SCHLOSSER,
Grad Student, French

“Always get a single,
‘cause roommates are
crazy.” | Page 4

TODAY
Isolated T-Storms
High: 89, Low: 66

TOMORROW
Mostly Sunny
High: 89, Low: 67

Some people say cha nge
is good.
The University is going
through many changes such as
staff changes, along with adapting to a new interim president
while simultaneously searching
for a new one.
But not all change has been
positive — particularly the
University’s new enrollment
numbers.
As of this week, the
University is down around
400 students from last year,
which includes undergraduates, graduates and students
at the Firelands campus.
But Gary Swegan, director of
undergraduate admission, said
comparing this year’s numbers
to last year isn’t fair.
“It’s like comparing apples
and oranges because last year, at
this time, we would have been in
our fourth day of school, but we

haven’t even started school yet,”
Swegan said.
Swegan said we have been
down in numbers for the last
two years in a row.
Last year there were 3,295
first-year students compared to
around 3,175 for this year’s firstyear students.
Swegan said one of the reasons why numbers are low is
because the class of 2004 is all
graduating.
“We brought in a huge class in
2004, over 3,900 students, and
we have been successful in graduating them,” he said. “And now
they are gone and we have been
bringing in smaller classes.”
But Alberto Gonzalez, vice
provost, said enrollment for firstyear students is down because of
scholarship cuts.
“The central administration
has cut freshman scholarships
by 40 percent; BGSU simply isn’t
creating the access that was the
hallmark of the Ribeau years,”
Gonzalez said. “In these tough

THE CHANGIN’
POPULATION
Last year there were 3,295 first year
students compared to around 3,175
for this year’s first year students
FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS
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400- First year students coming from outside of Ohio
12.6%- outside of Ohio
Over 13%- outside of Ohio
in 2007

First-year students coming
from Michigan
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185-2008
190-2007
112-2003

economic times, BGSU has
reduced support for students and
other institutions like University
of Toledo, Ohio University and
Ohio State University are providing better scholarships and
enrolling the students that
would have come here.”

First-year students of color
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Over 16%-2008
18.5%- 2007
20.5%-2006 (largest in the
last 25 years)
19%-2005
13%-2004

Headcount (total students of
the University)
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18,235-1996
21,361-2003
20,133-2006

Last year the class of 2006- 76%
returned as sophomores.
We are down 400 students, which
includes undergraduates,
graduates and students at the
Firelands campus.

Agreeing with Gonzalez is Ed
Whipple, vice president of student affairs, who believes some
students may be taking a semester off so they may earn enough

See ENROLLMENT | Page 2

I really didn’t look at many
places other than BGSU.
While considering a four-year
institution of higher learning
there are many factors I should
have considered. Except I didn’t.
The professor-to-student ratio
was overlooked by the male-tofemale ratio. Dining facilities,
class sizes, residence halls, tuition
rates, city life and student organizations are all important aspects
of the University. But I didn’t even
think twice about any of them
before making my decision to
attend BGSU.
I bit the hook when I found out
about our mascots Freddie and
Freida Falcon. Is it chance or is
it destiny that my grandparent’s
names are Fred and Freida?
And that was my basis of
enrolling. Maybe I should have
looked a little deeper.
On my first day of college
life, I found myself sitting in
my small McDonald West
room, wearing a bright orange
BGeXperience T-shirt and
fondeling a cold piece of fried
chicken from the Macateria.
I thought, so this is college? I
hope I made the right choice.
I started second-guessing my
hasty decision to attend BGSU. I
realized I didn’t know the slightest thing about the school or
the town it is in. Did BG have a
fight song? What is there to do
out of the classroom? Will future
employers even be impressed by
a degree from BGSU? Do I have
to eat fried chicken everyday!?
Relief came folded outside my
classroom every morning. The
BG News reminded me everyday that there is life on campus
outside of the classroom and my
hot little residence hall. There
are activities, clubs, interesting
people and many places to go
in Bowling Green. In fact, I read
The BG News on such a regular
basis, I decided I wanted to
work for it. Four years later, I’m
the editor-in-chief.
And while the paper may be
under my command, it is not
“my paper.”
The BG News has been on
campus since 1920. In it’s lifespan
it has always been the students’
newspaper, exploring the issues
that consume us as a campus, a
city, a nation and a world.
The BG News is very much
your paper, we just print it.

Cartwright, president of Kent
State University from 1991-2006,
started her duties officially on
July 21, shadowing Ribeau in his
final weeks on the job.
As the first female president at
the University, Cartwright hopes
to nurture the development of
the University during this time
of transition.
“There will be a lot of expectations for us about key decisions, but [I’ll also be] preparing the environment so it is the
best possible situation for a new
leader,” Cartwright said.
With 41 years of higher education experience under her
belt, Cartwright knows the
system well.
Cartwright pegged enrollment and retention as major
issues concerning the University
this year, as well as working on
strategic planning and working in accordance with higher
education policies given out by
Gov. Ted Strickland.
University Chief Financial

Eli J. Szymanowski, 22, of Bowling
Green, was cited for disorderly
conduct at a residence within the
300 block of N. Church St.

Nicholas M. Viviani, 20, of
Bowling Green, was cited for
public urination within the 400
block of E. Wooster St.
2:49 A.M.

Ryan S. Schalk, 36, of Bowling
Green, was cited for public urination within the 900 block of
S. Main St.

TUESDAY

From Page 1

WEDNESDAY
12:49 A.M.

Alex Aybar, 21, of Bowling
Green, was cited for open container within the 200 block of
N. Prospect St..
3:53 A.M.

Cameron Burke Walker, 20, of
Toledo, was arrested for underage under the influence and
disorderly conduct while intoxicated within the 2000 block of
E. Napoleon Rd.
10:58 P.M.

Mark W. Vondrak, 20, of Bowling
Green, was arrested for public
urination within the 200 block of
Manville Ave.
11:54 P.M.

Bradley J. Drerup, 20, of
Bowling Green, was arrested
for criminal trespassing,
obstruction of official business,
underage under the influence,
and prohibited acts.

ONLINE: Go to bgnews.com for the
complete blotter list.

money to return the following
semester.
“I think for incoming students, it’s still the lack of
enough financial aid, the cost,
even though we did not raise
tuition for next year, its still
expensive,” Whipple said.
In the last two years some
scholarships have been cut or
requirements have changed.
Recently, the scholarship,
which used to be called the
Historically Underrepresented
Scholarship, is now called
University Tuition Scholarship
for Underrepresented Students.
This scholarship has been
opened to all students and not
just students of color.
Due to this change the numbers for students of color has
dropped.
The class of 2006 brought in
the largest number of students
of color at 20.5 percent.
But since the scholarship
has been opened to ever yone t here is a litt le over
16 percent for students of
color this year and last year

“She is as wonderful
today as she was
when I worked with
her in the past.”
Sherideen Stoll | Chief Financial Officer
Officer Sherideen Stoll worked
with Cartwright at Kent State
and welcomes her to BGSU.
“I think Dr. Cartwright is
wonderful,” Stoll said. “She
is as wonderful today as she
was when I worked with her
in the past.”
Vice President for Student
Affairs Ed Whipple also said
Cartwright is a wonderful
addition to the University.
“She definitely has hit the
ground running,” he said. “I
have appreciated her commitment to what learning and education mean on a residential
campus and her articulation of
how all of us at the University
need to be engaged in students’
experiences.”
Whipple was also impressed
with Cartwright’s interaction

with students.
“She definitely was a hit with
student leaders at their annual
student leaders’ retreat Aug. 1113, and I know they are excited
to work with her,” he said.
During this time of transition,
search firm Witt/Kieffer was contracted by the University Board
of Trustees to find a permanent
replacement for Ribeau.
Trustee William Primrose will
chair the search committee.
Before accepting the job as
interim, Cartwright held positions as president of Kent
State University, vice chancellor for academic affairs at the
University of California at Davis
and dean for undergraduate
programs and vice provost at
Pennsylvania State University.
She and husband G. Phillip
Cartwright have three children
and two grandchildren.
With all her experience,
Cartwright is not afraid of making the tough decisions and is
looking to make her mark at the
University.
“It won’t be a placeholder
kind of year in any way at all,”
Cartwright said.

“That’s probably the big issue, how to
we sell Bowling Green? We got all the
ingredients, but how do you mix it up
and make it what it needs to be?”
Ed Whipple | Vice President of Student Affairs
it was 18.5 percent.
Aside from scholarship
changes, the University has
competition from other
schools as far as facilities’
appearance.
“We have got a lot of work to
do in campus beautification,
facilities, residence
halls;
that’s not a total reason but
when our competition like
Miami University, OU and
Kent State have pumped more
money into some of their facilities we are playing catch up,”
Whipple said.
Another issue for low
enrollment is recruitment
styles. Whipple said competing universities have been
going after the same pool
of graduating high school
seniors and BGSU needs to
distinguish itself.
“That’s probably the big

issue, how do we sell Bowling
Green?” he said. “We got all
the ingredients, but how do
you mix it up and make it what
it needs to be?”
Swegan, agreeing with
Whipple, said the University is
investing concern on looking
at different recruitment styles,
along with improving financial awards to students.
“We are trying to align our
financial aid budget, along
with awarding students funds
to pay for school because our
goal is by the fall of 2009 by to
have 3,400 first year students
and in 2011 to have 3,500,”
Swegan said. “Therefore we
are working with a nation
consulting firm, Noel Levitz,
in which are assisting us with
focusing on recruitment,
retention, and financial
aid awards.”

Although student activity oncampus slowed down a considerable amount this summer,
city crime in Bowling Green
did not.
In the months of May, June
and July, 592 people were
arrested. Liquor law violations
accounted for 121 of the arrests
— the largest area of violations.
Disorderly conduct followed
with 86 arrests, and drug abuse
was third with 47.
Although most arrests this
summer did not make banner
headlines, a few noteworthy
crimes did occur.
Robbery at the Enclave
Three
armed
males
entered an apartment at the
Enclave Two on June 2 and
demanded the residents give
them marijuana.
The three residents, who all
were international students,
replied they had no drugs.
The armed males continued
to search the house, but nothing was reported stolen.
University student and
football player Orlando Ray
Barrow was arrested for aggravated burglary and abduction
in relation to the robbery.
He was found with an airsoft
gun in his possession.
Bank Robbery
A man from Detroit robbed

Musical Mouthful

The song with the longest title is ‘I’m a Cranky
Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of
Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin’ Those
Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito
Blues’ written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1943. He
later claimed the song title ended with “Yank”
and the rest was a joke.

Saturday
August 23, 2008 11:00pm - 2:00am
The BGSU shuttle service is FREE and will take you
to select Bowling Green stores!
Special discounts from Meijer, Wal-mart, & Kroger
on residence hall essentials, back-to-school items & food!
Shuttle route starts at 11:00pm with on-campus stops including the Bowen-Thompson Student Union & the
bus stop located at Parking Lot 6. Off Campus stops include Meijer, Wal-Mart, & Kroger.
Last pick-up is at 2:00am

For more information contact the
Ofﬁce of Campus Activities at 419-372-2343

the 5/3rd bank on North Main
Street on July 24.
At approximately 9:30 a.m.
William Brown entered the
bank claiming he was armed,
and held three people against
their will.
During the robbery he
obtained $61,000 from
the bank.
Police were notified by multiple callers and upon arrival
found the suspect fleeing.
A short high-speed police
chase occurred, and ended
when Brown crashed.
Brown was arrested for
aggravated robbery, theft, failure to comply with order or signal of police officer, and three
counts of kidnapping.
No weapons were found in
Brown’s possession.
Drug Bust
The city police seized over
200 grams of marijuana, 14
marijuana plants and eight
grams of LSD on June 30 at an
apartment on the 200 block of
East Poe.
An 18-year-old male was the
only suspect apprehended after
police exercised the search
warrant.
Along with the suspected
drugs, police also confiscated
several items believed to be
paraphernalia, large sums
of cash, scales, plastic baggies and a marijuana grower's
handbook.

“It won’t be a placeholder kind of year in any way at all.”
— Carol Cartwright, new interim University President,
on her plans for the upcoming school year [see story, pg. 1].

PEOPLE ON THE STREET

Friday, August 22, 2008 4

What advice do you wish you had been given freshman year?

“You don’t have to do
four years worth of
partying your freshman year.”

“That you don’t have
unlimited funds, so
watch what you’re
buying.”

“Take your studies
seriously, rather
than going out
partying.”

“To get more
involved
with campus life.”

KRISTEN FELLS,
Sophomore,
Exercise Science

TOM SWEENEY,
Grad Student,
Lesiure/Tourism

ELVIS NYARKO,
Freshman,
Pre-med

MATT HORN,
Senior, Broadcast/
Telecommunications

You may not always agree,
but it’s still your Forum page
TIM
SAMPSON
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Hello, freshmen. This is the Forum
page of The BG News. And at some
point during your time here it’s
going to piss you off.
It’s not our intent to offend your
sensibilities or rouse your anger
— it’s just something that’s going
to happen. It’s inevitable. Sorry.
I’ve been working at The BG
News for two years and reading it
for four, and in that time I’ve seen

“It’s not our intent
to offend your
sensibilities ... it’s just
going something that’s
going to happen.”
every imaginable issue and controversy play out here on page 4.
Sometimes the topics are weighty
and at other times trivial. We’ve
been crucified for columns about
affirmative action and immigration and felt the hammer of God
fall on us for an X-rated column

about oral sex (which can still be
found at our Web site, bgnews.
com, if that sort of thing interests
you). No matter what the topic of
a particular column, at least one
of our more than 10,000 readers
is bound to find something objectionable in its content.
But don’t worry if you’re among
the offended. There is something
you can do.
When you pick up a copy of The
BG News on your way to class in
the morning (which I advise you
quickly make a part of you daily

See SAMPSON | Page 5

LEVI JOSEPH
WONDER
COLUMNIST
Well, well, well.
The tables have turned, and
now I’m a sophomore writing a
column for all you freshmen!
Oh sweet irony, how I love you
so. But enough of my gratuitous
self indulgence; I’ve got some
advice for all you freshmen. So
read on and see if my obligatory
freshman advice column has
any merit!
Let the wise words of Wonder
wisdom begin!
I’ll cover the most important
piece of advice first: Maintaining
one’s self-esteem.

the brain’s stress-management
tanks (the watermelon) will be
overloaded and fried (they will
be Gallagher-ed).
Fortunately, there are many
waystorelievestressinthefun-tastic area known as Bowling Green
State University. Extracurricular
activities, learning community
functions and nightlife are a few
of the things which this particular
columnist has relied on in order
to destroy some stressors in his
college career.
And when I say “nightlife,” I’m
not talking about getting tanked
on Natty Light at 1:30 in the
morning in some smelly guy’s
dirty living room (but no offense
to those who do so).
For me, things like the
Chapman Learning Community
and Dagorhir Battle Games have

You’re here. Now what?
You’ve just unpacked. You’re
parents are gone. You’re getting
to know your new roommates.
Time to party!
Not so fast, Van Wilder.
Although most entering
freshmen have been dreaming
about their first weekend in college since their first weekend in
high school, we at The BG News
would like to offer two words of
advice: chill out.
Move-in weekend is notorious in this town (as it surely is
in most college towns) for being
two days of wild debauchery,
underage alcohol consumption
and all the other things you’d
rather do while your parents are
miles and miles away.
Don’t get us wrong. We know

helped me to both have fun and
to relieve stress for the duration of
my freshman year of college.
Due to their stress-mutilating
qualities, I would highly recommend activities such as these
to incoming freshmen who are
looking for ways to blow off figurative steam and enjoy doing so
at the same time.
And what’s one of the best
ways to get involved on campus?
Meeting new people.When meeting someone new, information is
shared between the two conversers. And what does that mean?
It means that each person in
the conversation gets to learn
about all of the cool stuff that
there is to do on campus!

See WONDER | Page 5

College in Hollywood is not quite like Bowling Green
TANNEN GLIATTA
COLUMNIST
Welcome to college! A place
where you will instantly meet
life long friends, never have
to worry about money and be
surrounded only by beautiful
people. Or at least that is what
the entertainment industry
would lead you to believe.
In reality some friendships
that you make in college will
dissolve by the time you get
your diploma, most of you
will worry about money just
as much as you worry about
grades and I am not even going
to touch the beautiful people
comment. But you can’t blame
Hollywood for trying to con-

vince us otherwise.
Youth is everything in the
entertainment
industry.
Generation Y can’t take sole
credit for the success of powerhouse entertainment acts but
we play a large part because
history shows we are the ones
most willing to spend our disposable money on entertainment.
It’s because of us the CW
network exists. It’s because
of us “Pineapple Express” had
a $23 million opening weekend. And, sadly, it’s because of
us Miley Cyrus had one of the
highest grossing concert tours
in 2007.
So you would think with the
younger generation being such
a huge economic force there
would be projects that represent how college actually is.
The entertainment industry

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has mastered what it is like to
be in high school ever since
“The Breakfast Club” but few
television programs and movies show an accurate account of
college life. Sure, “Old School”
and “Animal House” are funny
and have elements of truth but
they are more parody than
fact. Television has came close
with programs like “Felicity”
but the majority of shows that
were once relatable and honest
all of sudden turn into cliché
and forgettable when the characters transition from high
school to college. But one show
has seemed to break the curse
by creating characters, settings
and situations that are true to
college life.
“Greek,” which premieres
its new season on ABC Family
this Tuesday, has all the elements that viewers want on a
primetime soap: love triangles, catty girl fights and rivalry. However, they balance it
out with real situations. In
fact, “Greek’s” fictitious

Have your own take on
today’s People On The
Street? Or a suggestion for
a question? Give us your
feedback at bgnews.com.

STAFF EDITORIAL

Now, an obligatory freshman advice column
The first year of college can
be (and usually is) a trying time
in any student’s life. Adjusting
to the residence halls, living in
the sardine can-sized rooms,
and taking on school as a type
of educationally-focused career
can (and does) wrack anyone’s
nerves to the point where one’s
daily aspirin consumption rises
to abnormally high levels.
Stress happens to everyone,
and failure to acknowledge this
fact can result in a severe blow to
one’s opinion of him/herself similar to the effect which Gallagher
has on a watermelon. In short,
take every sensible measure necessary to relieve stress.
If such headache-inducing energies pile up in one’s
head without regulation or any
signs of slowing down, then

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Ohio-based Cyprus Rhodes
University is not all that different from Bowling Green
State University. The show’s
main characters include Zeta
Beta Zeta sorority President
Casey who has book and street
smarts, her socially awkward
freshman brother Rusty and
the two guys competing for
Casey’s affection, the Van
Wilder-like Cappie and preppy,
rich kid Evan.
It is an eclectic group of characters who all become friends
and, in some cases, enemies
just like the real world. The
cliques that dominated high
school no longer exist in such a
strict manor. Naturally groups
do exist in college, like the
Greek system that connects all
of the central characters, but
it’s not based on how you dress
or whether you were an athlete
like it was in high school.
One of the main aspects that

See GLIATTA | Page 5

that you’ll just make a fool of
yourself.
You may not be familiar with
it yet, but The BG News police
blotter chronicles many of the
drunken episodes of vandalism,
fighting, public urination and
other embarrassing incidents
that occur in this otherwise
sleepy town. And when you’re
under the influence of alcohol,
you’re much more likely to make
the kind of bad decisions that
lead to your name and actions
appearing in our blotter, for all
the world (and Google) to see.
Hope this wasn’t too much of
a downer. College is definitely
a time to have fun and cut lose.
Just don’t try to cram four years
of partying into one weekend.

most of you will attend at least
a few parties inbetween diligently attending to your coursework, but there are a number of
reasons to pace yourself this
weekend.
First of all, excessive drinking can kill you. The Centers for
Disease Control report that over
20,000 people die each year from
alcohol-induced deaths (which
do not include accidents or
homicides that happened under
the influence – just plain drinking too much). Even a University
student died from excessive
drinking last year on his 21st
birthday. Although death may
be an extreme consequence, it is
a possibility all the same.
But a far greater possibility is

Some words
of wisdom from the
other side of the desk
PHIL SCHURRER
FACULTY COLUMNIST
Welcome to everyone beginning
his or her BGSU adventure! And,
welcome back to all who are
continuing their journey! No
doubt you’ve heard – and will
continue to hear – words of welcome from friends, faculty and
administrators.
For some, this will be the start
of a heady new adventure — the
first time away from home, parents, siblings and old friends. For
others, it’s a chance to forge new
friendships and renew old ones.
For everyone returning, this is a
chance to develop new perspectives, refine old ones and share
these with others.
So, without being overly didactic, allow me to offer a few perspectives from the standpoint of
a semi-senior (NOT OLD!) faculty
member.
Let’s start with some simple
math: there are 168 hours in
each and every week. Every week
we’re given 168 hours – no more,
no less. What we do with these
hours depends, in great part, on
us. So, as a consequence of our
newfound independence, we’re
responsible for the outcome.
During these 168 hours, we
need to sleep, eat, study, do laundry, take care of our basic human
needs, read, converse, reflect,
exercise, walk, drive, take the
campus bus, work and so on.
The problem is essentially a
balancing act: to balance all of
these tasks (and more) and, at the
end of our 168 hours, come out
sane and with something positive
to show for it. And then, we begin
the 168-hour lap all over again.
The key to making sense of
this is to use the same technique

we employ anytime we have a
limited amount of anything and
a limitless number of ways to
expend those finite resources. It’s
called budgeting, and it’s one of
the most useful techniques you’ll
ever learn here at BGSU.
Just as we budget our money,
we should also budget our time.
And, in fact, time is equally
important. There are some very
important things you can learn
here at BGSU, and they don’t
come from a textbook or lecture.
Budgeting is certainly one of
those very critical skills.
Other important tips:
- Pay attention to due dates for
assignments, dates for tests and
quizzes and the like. Many faculty members have had the experience of students showing up for
the final exam at the wrong day,
time or place. Make sure you get
the correct information. If there’s
any question, ask.
- There are a number of fairly intelligent people here, but
one thing no one can do is read
minds. We don’t know your problems, stresses and difficulties
until you tell us. Silence solves
nothing; so let your instructor,
advisor or counselor know about
your problems. The earlier the
better.
- Some things are not do-overs.
So, be sure you’ve given some
thought, not only to your actions,
but also to all the ramifications
of what you do. Remember —
words have meanings; actions
have consequences.
So, it’s off to the great adventure. With work and intelligence,
you should do fine. Remember, a
university experience is all about
growing and developing. And it
never stops. That’s what makes it
so much fun.
- Respond to Phil at
thenews@bgnews.com.

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GLIATTA
From Page 4
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Greekâ&#x20AC;? gets right is the evolution the characters go through.
In college you are not the same
person you were in high school.
Some, like Rusty who joins the
party fraternity Kappa Tau in
part to leave his book nerd persona behind, use the chance
to completely reinvent themselves but other changes happen more subconsciously. For
Rusty pledging allowed him
to understand and appreciate
his sister on their newfound
common ground.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Greekâ&#x20AC;? also recognizes
that who you establish yourself as freshman year of college is not the same person
you will be when you graduate.
Experiences, both good and
bad, change us and the students
at Cyprus Rhodes. In one of the
best episodes from last season
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Greekâ&#x20AC;? flashed back to when
Casey, Cappie and Evan first
met as freshmen. Before Cappie
and Evan were opposing fraternity presidents they were roommates. And as the annual All
Greek Ball came around once
again Casey, Evan and Cappie
were still faced with many of
the same dilemmas but how
they dealt with them changed
because they had learned from
their mistakes freshmen year
and their priorities had shifted.
So â&#x20AC;&#x153;Greekâ&#x20AC;? gets the big
things right, the importance of
college beyond the classroom
and all that, but it also gets
the small things right. Rustyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
struggles with dorm life and
roommate Dale are spot on.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Greekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; balances
reality and fiction
just enough to keep
viewers tuning in
week after week.â&#x20AC;?
The local dive bar Dabblerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
could actually be in Bowling
Green. And the show gets
most of the details on sorority
and fraternity life right, like
the importance of community
involvement.
But letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not forget, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Greekâ&#x20AC;?
is a TV show so not all things
are completely based in reality.
The Plain White Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play
shows at fraternity parties like
they do for Kappa Tau and life
at BGSU is not nearly as dramatic as it is at Cyprus Rhodes.
Jennifer Sutter is a member
of the sorority Sig Kap. She
started watching â&#x20AC;&#x153;Greekâ&#x20AC;? after
her sisters convinced her to give
it a try. It has become one of
her favorite shows even though
she has a love/hate relationship
with it.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were parts of the show
that really did bother me. The
hazing, the ridiculous rituals
that they would show and the
all-time parties,â&#x20AC;? Sutter said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s known that sororities and
frats have many different rituals that they keep quiet [about]
and that no other chapter knows
about. So, that kind of bothered
me that they went way out of
their way to show that and that
the rituals were so out of this
world.â&#x20AC;?
And even though â&#x20AC;&#x153;Greekâ&#x20AC;?

exaggerates situations Sutter
said there is an element of truth
to it.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Overall, the show was dramafilled, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for sure, and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
care how much people say it,
but when there is drama there
is a part of all of us that wants
to know what is going on and I
guess that is why I got hooked
to the show,â&#x20AC;? she said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Greekâ&#x20AC;? balances reality and
fiction just enough to keep
viewers tuning in week after
week. But the show does have
a bit of an idealized few of college. The first two seasons were
set in the fall and winter and
yet for a college in Ohio not a
single snowflake has been seen.
Cappie and crew wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t last a
day on Bowling Greenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campus
with the harsh winds and the
blistering cold.
And when we need advice
Lauren Conrad doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appear
to us in our dreams like she
will for Casey during the new
season. The season premier
of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Greekâ&#x20AC;? is this Tuesday and
series creator Patrick Sean
Smith told reporters that this
season deals with the end of
the school year. Picking up a
few days after the spring break
season finale the show will deal
with campaigning and presidential elections for the Greeks,
Rusty will get back into his scientific side and of course, lots of
relationship drama.
Even though life at Cyprus
Rhodes is a bit different than
it is at BGSU â&#x20AC;&#x153;Greekâ&#x20AC;? is one
school that I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mind going
back to.
- Respond to Tannen at

SAMPSON
From Page 4
ritual) and you see something
you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like on this or any other
page, go to the nearest computer,
open up a word document and
start typing. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just that easy.
You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to be a journalism student or an English major.
All you have to be is a reader with
an opinion. We call this a Forum
page because we truly want it to
be a place where the University
and Bowling Green communities
can exchange ideas and debate
issues. This page shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be
comprised merely of the opinions
of the handful of students who
happen to be regular columnists.

WONDER
From Page 4
And regardless of what you
may or may not have heard,
meeting new people at college
is a wholly inevitable phenomenon. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible to go through
college without making any new
friends. So donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry about it.
Sometimes it just needs a kick
in the pants to get moving.
But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why we have
delightful little activities called
ICEBREAKERS!
Soâ&#x20AC;Ś Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve covered stress management, extracurriculars, meeting new peopleâ&#x20AC;Ś it would seem
that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to address the most
important topic at hand:
This column isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t introducing
anything new.
I would be a cretin if I honestly thought that the things Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve
briefly described in this column

Friday, August 22, 2008
We have about nine columnists
on staff right now and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all
going to get pretty sick of hearing
what they have to say if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
jump into the mix and tell us what
you think. Students, alumni, faculty, staff and Bowling Green residents should all feel welcomed
and encouraged to send us letters
to the editor or guest columns.
Hell, if you really want to get your
opinion out there by becoming a
full-time columnist, just shoot me
an e-mail or stop by our office in
210 West Hall â&#x20AC;&#x201D; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still accepting applications!
Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all facing big issues this
year. On the national stage we
are witnessing one of the most
exciting and dynamic presidential
elections in modern history. At

the state level the cost of education continues to rise. And locally,
debate about a contentious zoning ordinance promises to be a
dominate issue in city-campus
politics. All of these issues and
more deserve to be discussed in
this paper â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and you should be
part of the discussion.
So when something in this
paper pisses you off, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just
grumble about it to your friends
and then shrug it off. Nothing ever
changes unless citizens are willing
to stand up and debate issues in a
public forum. That is why we call
this the Forum page.

would serve as a how-to guide
for total and complete happiness
for the typical student during the
transition from high school to
college.
Seriously. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a BGSU
freshman and you have chosen
to read this far, then you will have
noticed that this column is nothing more than an ever-slightlyso-edgy reiteration of the same
old bland â&#x20AC;&#x153;welcome to college!â&#x20AC;?
speech that all freshmen will hear
at least 50 times before the first
semester is over.
What I mean by the words that
I have written is this: Do your own
thing. Chances are that if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re
a half-decent person with average communication skills, then
youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re primed and ready to have
a great time at Bowling Green
State University for the next 2, 4,
6, or whatever years.
Yes, extracurricular activities
and school functions are great

fun and are fantastic stress relievers; that would probably be the
reason that so many people participate in them. So when I say
that these things are great ways
to reduce stress and to make the
introductory phase of college
more interesting and less mindneuteringly-crazy, I mean it.
But I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean to say that
these things MUST be done in
order to make college enjoyable.
If I did, then my column would
be as original as I am Swedish
(And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not Swedish).
See what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m saying? Of
course you do. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all bright,
young, eager students who are
here at BGSU to become productive members of society and
to engage in our educational
systemâ&#x20AC;Ś right?

Temptations convience
store serves students on the
Northwest end of campus.
They also have the largest
variety of Ben & Jerry’s ice
cream on campus.
Kravings is also located in
Founder’s and serves students
with the snacks they crave.

The Sundial features
a daily bistro, salad bar
and a variety of dinner
and dessert options. Jump
Asian Express and Mama
Margie’s Pizza are also
popular among students.
At sundown, the Sundial
morphs into Shadows and
provides snack food, pizza
and ice cream.

McDonald Dining Center, informally known as the
Macateria, has a number of breakfast, lunch and dinner
options for students.

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Founder’s Keepers Dining
Center has a similar set-up
as the Subdial with a salad
bar, plenty of lunch and dinner
options and an ice cream sundae station. Jump Asian Express
and Mama Margie’s Pizza is also
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The Falcon’s Nest is home to Steak Escape, soup, sandwich,
pasta and breakfast stations. For a tasty treat the Creamery is
home to local Toft’s ice cream and Jet smoothies. Hot Tamales
offers burritos, fajitas and other Mexican food.
Home of the Cowboy Burger, a BBQ burger topped with
Swamp Fries, the Black Swamp Pub is a great place to shoot
pool, watch a big game and chow down. There is also a bar but
no drinks on your meal plan.
The Bowling Greenery is great place to grab lunch. The fullservice restaurant and buffet is a nice place to meet up, sit
down and have a meal.
The Union also features Wendy’s and Starbucks.

Common’s Marketplace is home to a
variety of snackfood, fresh salads and
grab-n-go sandwiches.
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Chily’s gets new name,
Commons brunch moves
By Kyle Reynolds
Reporter

The decision made last year
to eliminate meal plan rollover isn’t the only change in
dining services.
The old Chily’s Convenience
Store received a fresh coat
of paint this summer and
a new name, Common’s
Marketplace.
“A lot of people are going
away from the convenience
stores because it doesn’t seem
permanent. It seems like just
a place you pass through so
we wanted to make it a more
homelike place,” said Daria
Blachowski-Dreyer, associate
director of nutrition and menu
management.
The new Common’s
Marketplace will also feature “Salads by Design,”
where a number of salads
such as Asian, Greek and
orchard salads will be
available and prepared
fresh in front of students,
Blachowski-Dreyer said.
The old Commons Buffet
area will serve as overflow
seating for BGSUb, but the
buffet breakfast that used to
be served there will move to
Campus Corners, located on
west side of McDonald Hall, on
the weekend. The brunch will
be served Saturday through
Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Those will be the only meals
served at Campus Corners
though; the weekday night
full-service restaurant will not
be operating anymore.

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“Campus Corners
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Daria Blachowski-Dreyer | UDS
“Campus Corners outlived
its time,” Blachowski-Dreyer
said. “Customer numbers were
down despite positive food and
service reviews.”
There are also new recipes for
grab-n-go sandwiches, which
can be found in refrigerators in
the union and other dining facilities. Sandwiches include chicken
salad and peanut butter and jelly,
Blachowski-Dreyer said.
Another new addition will be
at the Zza’s at Night window in
the Union, which will be home to
Cincinnati-style chili.
T here have been severa l
cha nge s to t he hou r s of
operat ion of a few d i n i ng
f ac i l it ie s. McDona ld a nd
Fou nder s w i l l now open
at 10 a.m. because of t he
lack of bre a k f a st t r a f f ic
ea rly i n t he mor n i ng, but
each w i l l ser ve brea k fa st
it em s w hen t he y op en,
Blachowsk i-Dreyer sa id.
Temptations will open earlier
at 7:30 a.m. to accommodate students who want some quick food
on their way to class.
Meal plan rollover from
previous years will end on
May 2009. After that all
money put on a student’s
meal plan that is not spent
by the end of the school year
will go to the University.
There are three meal plan
options for students living on
campus, which jumped up
in price 4.5 percent from last
year. They include the Gold
Plan, which costs $1,820 and
includes $480 in Flex Funds,
the Silver Plan at $1,670
includes $350 Flex Funds
and the Bronze Plan at $1,400
includes $200 Flex Funds.
Flex Funds are money that can
be spent at the Union’s dining services, which includes the Falcon’s
Nest, Wendy’s, Starbucks, Black
Swamp Pub, Bowling Greenery
and Zza’s at Night.
Buying the “meal deal” combos at dining halls are one
way students can stretch their
meal plan out but making sure
their eyes aren’t bigger than
their appetite is the best way,
Blachowski-Dreyer said.
“At the Sundial students
see a ll t he options t here
and they have a tendency
to overspend,” BlachowskiDreyer said. “They see it
and buy it but they should
choose selectively and tr y
and get the most nutrition
for their dollar.”
Rob Lonardo, a second-year
grad student, spent his undergraduate years here too and said
he had a difficult time getting his
money to last through the year
but that his friends would buy
him some meals.
“I always had a problem at
the end of the semester with my
meal plan so I would find friends
with a couple hundred dollars on
their meal plan to help me out,”
Lonardo said.

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to scrape for quarters to do laundry, as a sign in Founders Hall laundry room proclaims.

New laundry fee
for fall semester
By Jessica Spies
Reporter

Students who do laundry in residence halls will no longer have
to search under their futons for
quarters.
The Board of Trustees has
approved a $50 per semester
charge for laundry. The fee will
appear on students’ bursar bill
and is mandatory for those living
on campus.
This fee will be paid upfront
and Michael Griffel, director of
Residence Life, said students living on campus will not be able
to opt out.
“The intent was to make it convenient and easy - not to make
people feel nickeled and dimed
for a basic necessity,” Griffel said.
Residence Life hopes to bring in
new washers and dryers to add to
what the residence halls already
have. A company supplying washers and dryers will survey to see
how many additional machines
the University can accommodate,
Griffel said.
This involves looking at the
additional cost per machine,
including electric and water.
Prospective University student
Shannon Heckman said she is not
bothered by the new laundry fee.
“My brother is in college and he
always brings his laundry home,”
she said. “I’m going to be able to
do my laundry and not have to
pay for it each time.”
The new fee will be beneficial
to many University students living
in residence halls, said Joy Amlin,
sophomore.
“I can never get enough quarters,” Amlin said. “Sometimes I
wait to do laundry because I have
no money.”

Other universities have had this
mandatory fee for years.
Davidson College in North
Carolina has had this fee for
the past 83 years, according to
collegenews.org.
However, at Davidson College,
students are able to drop off their
laundry and have laundry workers
do it for them. This fee is included
in room fees and does not appear
separately.
The State University of New
York at Oswego has an “ASC
Washer & Dryer Fee” that is $60
per semester.
According to SUNY at Oswego’s
Web site, the charge covers the
cost of repairs and replacement
of laundry equipment and unlimited use of washers and dryers for
students.
At $1.25 a wash and 25 cents
per 15 minutes of drying, the
University’s fee of $50 would
mean that students have to do
their laundry about one and a half
times per week in order to spend
the full $50.
There are students who won’t
take advantage of the laundry fee,
but there are also students who
don’t take advantage of what the
campus has to offer, Griffel said.
Students living on campus are
charged for wireless Internet and,
if they don’t bring a computer,
they are not taking advantage of
this fee, he said.
However, some students don’t
believe that $50 is an appropriate
fee for a semester.
“There is no way that I will do
my laundry once a week,” said
Mark Dunlap, sophomore. “I
won’t even have enough clothes
to wash.”
Editor’s note: This story was originally printed in the July 9 issue of
The BG News.

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See Monday’s issue
for continued fall
sports coverage.
Keep on the lookout for more
football coverage as they
prepare for Pitt, and also for
recaps from the first soccer
games of the season.

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The List
Here are the top five reasons
why you should get out
and support Falcon
athletics this fall.
1. The gridiron: The
football team won eight
games last year and went to
a bowl. This is a great bandwagon to jump on right now.

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NEWS

BREAKTHROUGHS: After a disappointing 4-8 record in 2006, last year’s team went 8-4 and secured their first bowl bid in three years. This season, many are predicting the Falcons to be a major player in the MAC East.

New season brings
heightened expectations

‘Five blocks of granite’
taking on a new look

By Chris Voloschuk
Sports Editor

By Andrew Harner
Assistant Sports Editor

The BG football team doesn’t believe in such a thing as a bowl hangover. It’s not in their vocabulary.
Last year, the Falcons crafted a complete turnaround in the MidAmerican Conference standings from the year before, finishing 8-4
and tying for the East Division title. The big payoff was a bid to the
GMAC Bowl in Mobile, Ala. They stunned Minnesota, rode a late-season winning streak and drubbed Toledo at home. Life was good for a
team that was picked in the preseason to finish in fifth place.
But, in keeping with the 2007 theme of unexpected results, the
Falcons were thoroughly outplayed at the GMAC Bowl, losing 63-7
to a Tulsa team that overwhelmed them in all facets of the game
ENOCH WU | THE BG NEWS
for 60 minutes.
Going forward, the team could march in two directions — be happy KEEPERS: The Falcons will return 18
with a winning season or get hungry for more. They chose the latter.
veterans on both sides of the ball this season, including their multi-tasking senior,
See EXPECTS | Page 10
Anthony Turner.

2. We’ve got
Cinderella: The women’s
soccer team was the story
of last year’s conference
tournament when they made
an improbable finals run.
3. Winners: The
women’s basketball team and
men’s hockey team both won
postseason games last year.
Both soccer teams, both golf
teams and the volleyball team
had success, too.
4. Tradition: If you look
deeper into these sports,
you’ll find that BG has a
pretty rich athletic tradition.

5. It’s your school
now: You’ve presumably
only got four years at BG,
so get excited and
support the Falcons.

Gone are Kevin Huelsman, Kory Lichtenstieger, Drew Nystrom,
Andrew Stanford and Pat Watson, but coach Gregg Brandon’s phrase
to describe them lives on in more than one way.
“The five blocks of granite” is what Brandon called the five when he
recruited them all as true freshmen five years ago, and the nickname
stuck through to their graduation last year.
“It was amazing that all five of them stuck together for five years of
their careers,” Brandon said. “Year after year they got better and better, and we just called them the five blocks.”
“They fit the mold of the perfect offensive line,” second-year center
Ben Bojicic said. “They finished to the whistle, and that’s something I
aspire to do when I get older and now.”
But not only are the coaches and players still talking about the
phrase, two donators to Falcon football have permanently etched
See GRANITE | Page 10

With three seniors back,
netters looking to win big
By Sean Shapiro
Reporter

BG NEWS FILE PHOTO

BACK FOR MORE: After being knocked out of th MAC Championship game in overtime last season, BG’s women’s soccer team has a mix of
freshmen and veterans to contend for another title.

Women’s soccer trying to build off ‘07
and win it,” said BG coach Andy
Richards, who is returning for his
ninth season as head coach.
With two-a-day practices havAfter losing the Mid-American
Conference championship last ing been in full swing the past two
season in double-overtime by a weeks, the squad will open up
penalty kick, the women’s soccer its season against Cincinnati on
team is back in the hunt for a title. Friday, giving the coaching staff a
“There was a great sense of dis- preview as to what’s to come.
“The beginning of the season
appointment when we lost that
game last year and I think that is always a very interesting time
disappointment has turned into because you never know what
determination to get back there you’ve got,” Richards said.
By Jordan Cravens
Reporter

While he may not know his
entire arsenal of weapons, there
are a few items tipping the scale in
the Falcons’ favor.
The team is returning 18 letterwinners and nine starters from last
year’s squad and is also boasting
the largest roster in program history, with the line-up going 28 deep.
“That’s going to be a strength of

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Coach Denise Van De Walle
has a lot to look forward to over
the next couple weeks.
September 2nd, she’ll leave
with the women’s national
sitting team to defend a
Paralympics bronze medal
in Beijing. She will do this
while at the same time entering her 26th season as BG’s
volleyball coach.
Van De Walle’s Falcon team
is coming off of a 21-10 season that ended with a MidAmerican Conference quarterfinal loss to Kent State. After
graduating a strong senior
class, BG returns four All-MAC
starters from last year’s run,
as well as record-breaking
senior libero Chelsey Meek.
The Falcons will look to Meek
and fellow seniors Kendra
Halm and Meghan Mohr to be
leaders for the young team.
“Our three seniors will do a
great job for us this year. They’re
ready to lead,” Van De Walle
said. “They understand what’s
at stake. They have been anticipating their leadership role
and want to do it. They under-

BG NEWS FILE PHOTO

ON THE UP: The Falcons are looking to
exceed their 21 wins from last season

stand that the young players
need mentoring, guidance, and
friendship.”
The Falcons are bringing
back their two best defensive

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EXPECTS
From Page 9
This offseason, the sting of
the bowl loss has stuck out in
the players’ minds more than
the eight victories, leading them
to adopt a different term to their
collective vocabulary.
“No days off,” said senior linebacker Erique Dozier. “We’ve
been working since the first
morning meeting. We’ve been
going full speed ahead.”
Even if the team wanted a day
off, they’d be hard pressed to
find one. Along with training
camp have come a lot of positive reports from media outlets
all over the country. GMAC
loss or no, many out there have
picked the Falcons to be a frontrunner in the MAC this season.
Accordingly, expectations have
increased.
“There’s definitely been
an increase in expectations,”
Dozier said. “Especially making it to the bowl game and not
finishing. We want to make the
big dance this year. That’s what
we’re shooting for this year.”
“That’s what we’ve come to
expect here,” said head coach
Gregg Brandon. “The tradition
of football here and the success
we’ve had the last five years.”
With so many out there predicting a winning season, it
could get difficult for the younger, less experienced players to
handle the pressure. Luckily for
this year’s team, 18 veterans
have returned to guide the ship.
Junior wide receiver Freddie
Barnes said he tells the younger
guys not to worry about what
people on the outside say, and to

GRANITE
From Page 9
their legacy in stone for future
generations of players and fans
to see.
Mark and Lois Brechlin
were well aware of the nickname as well as the players it
referred to and have memorialized those five with an actual block of granite inscripted with their numbers and
a plaque that will be placed
somewhere in Doyt Perry
Stadium before the season.
“The original blocks are always
going to be the original blocks,”

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be your sports writers

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BOWLED OVER: The Falcons run out onto the field at Ladd Peebles Stadium prior to kickoff at January’s GMAC Bowl. They would go
on to lose to Tulsa, 63-7. The loss has served as a motivation tool for players this offseason.

“The thing that these kids are really
fired up about is they want to win a MAC
championship. We’ve done about everything
else you can do except that.”

“The thing that these kids are
really fired up about is they
want to win a MAC championship,” Brandon said. “We’ve
done about everything else
you can do except that. That’s
the challenge we’re facing with
this group of seniors.”
Gregg Brandon | Coach
While expectations have
increased outside of the team
And this year, there’s a strik- for 2008, the Falcons aren’t worjust focus on the task at hand.
“[I say] just stand steadfast ing similarity between what ried about it. In fact, they’ve risen
with the playbook and listen to media members have predicted their own. The complacency
coaches,” Barnes said. “And [we] and what the Falcons want to of success hasn’t been given a
let them know that the only way accomplish. Brandon, Barnes chance to settle in, and the most
it’s going to happen is with hard and Dozier all said they’d love important term in their vocabuwork. That’s pretty much how to get a shot at the ever-elusive lary is ‘no days off.’
MAC championship.
we handle it.”
Brandon said. “The offensive line
is one of the strengths of this
program, and it really has been
through the years.”
This year’s line doesn’t appear
that it will have any problem
continuing that trend.
Despite having to fill a void
left by three senior starters,
including a NFL draftee, the line,
anchored by senior captains Jeff
Fink and Brandon Curtis, has a
new look, and the possibility to
be just as good.
“It’s going to be big shoes to fill,
but I’m here to make my own
shoes,” Boijcic said. “It’s not necessarily filling in shoes for Kory,
but it’s filling in shoes for all the

seniors that left.”
“The line last year was really
good, but this year we’re picking
up,” Curtis said. “We can eventually be just as good as that line
last year.”
To accomplish that, Curtis said
the line needs to continue practicing hard and gaining more chemistry than they already have.
“Sometimes it’s like we didn’t
miss a beat from last year, but
sometimes it’s not,” Curtis said.
“It’s going to take time, taking
more and more reps as a group
to get that chemistry like last
year’s O-line did.”
Brandon also thinks there
is plenty of potential in his

current line saying they “have
to get some battle scars” early
in the season in order to be
ready for conference play.
Facing No. 25 Pittsburgh,
Minnesota, Boise State and
Wyoming in the opening weeks
of the season, the linemen will
get plenty of chances to prove to
the college football world as well
as their coach, who still isn’t sure
what his final line will look like,
that they belong.
“If it’s not the same five that
start the season that are playing
against Eastern Michigan, so be
it,” Brandon said. “We’re going to
use the preseason to gel and find
out who those five guys are.”

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Welcome, welcome, welcome.
This is your sports section, and I’m
your sports editor. I hope you’re all
ready to have a fun, yet productive
school year.
You’ve picked a good school to
attend as far as sports go. And a lot
of the foundation has already been
laid for some successful programs.
Heck, we’re even laying some new
foundation in this sports section
(more on that later).
The football team went 8-4 last
year and earned a bowl bid. And all
offseason the team has been getting a lot of love from the national
media, being picked by many
to finish atop their division. The
women’s basketball team has been
stellar for about five years running.
The men’s basketball team and the
hockey team both made strides
last year and it could parlay into
more success this season.
Don’t forget the less-hyped sports,
such as soccer, rugby and volleyball
this semester, as they’re pretty exciting too. Basically, if you’re a sports
fan, you’re in a good situation.

CHRIS
VOLOSCHUK
SPORTS EDITOR
Along with so many teams
comes a diverse collection of
athletes. BG has athletes from
all over the state, all over the
country and all over the world.
Not bad for a mid-major in a
smaller conference.
My job, along with the rest of the
sports staff, is to find the stories
that exist for all of our teams. With
so many diverse backgrounds,
developments and games to cover,
our goal is to do our best to keep
you well informed, but at the same
time allow you to form your own
opinions on what’s going on in the
world of BG athletics.
With that said, we’re not
cheerleaders.

It wasn’t an expected change or
one that the coaches really wanted to see, but BG’s defense has
gone through quite the overhaul
since last season.
While Sean O’Drobinak’s and
Loren Hargrove’s graduations
were expected and planned for
by the coaches, four defensemen being removed from the
team for various reasons since
the spring wasn’t something
anyone had exactly planned for.
However, defensive coordinator
Mike Ward never viewed it as a
problem because of the strong
recruiting BG does.
“We’re playing the guys we
got,” Ward said. “We’ve got seven
quality defensive linemen when
we’re healthy.”
Defensive linemen Jacob
Hardwick and Orlando Barrow,
defensive back Tarell Lewis and
linebacker Glen Stanley were all
expected to be big pieces to the
Falcon defense this season, but
now will only be able to watch as
the season unfolds.
But, the team’s recruits are
there to step in when a situation like this happens, and that’s
exactly why Ward said this isn’t
creating a big problem with the
defense.
“Due to the circumstances,
maybe they’re playing a year
before we really wanted them
to,” Ward said of the young
players replacing the four. “But
we won’t play them unless
they’re ready.”
Now it’s up to younger players
like junior Michael Ream, freshman Kevin Alvarado and sophomore Nick Torresso to take the
challenge of being the ‘next men
up’ in BG’s defensive plans.
“We lost some people, but we
see that as another challenge,”
Torresso said. “Honestly, it was
a challenge for the younger guys
to step up.”
While it may be a frustrating
adjustment for the team to make
at first, they have no choice but
to deal with it and make the

ENOCH WU | THE BG NEWS

WAITING: Senior linebacker Erique Dozier
waits to greet a receiver in the endzone.

appropriate adjustments to the
depth chart.
“It’s an unfortunate situation,
but the coaches recruited around
it,” senior captain Antonio Smith
said. “I wish they were still here,
but you have to move on.”
Not only has the depth chart
had its changes, Smith has also
changed his approach to how
he leads the team on defense
this year to help keep the
younger players from making
the same mistakes his former
teammates made.
“I’ve tried to have a better relationship [with the younger players] so I can know where they’re
at,” Smith said. “If they’re going
through something, I try to catch
it before it gets worse.”
Ward said that “without a
doubt” the defense has tremendous leadership and that
the younger players are fitting
right in. Torresso agrees with

The first four years of the Fred
Thompson regime for the BG
menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer team have been less
than stellar.
In that time, the team has gone
14-56-6, and had no appearances
in the Mid-American Conference
championship. But there does
seem to be a light at the end of
this tunnel, and a collection of
evidence that is making Bowling
Green coaches, players and fans
all believe that things are about
to change.
BG NEWS FILE PHOTO
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not a program that I think
other teams have on their sched- TOUGH ROAD: The Falcons havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fared well in the past few years, but there is reason to
ule, that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking forward
believe they can improve from this seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s challenging schedule.
to playing,â&#x20AC;? assistant coach Ken
White said.
Whiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s statement may very well
be a factual one, when all of the
recent strides made by the Falcons
are taken into consideration. Of
the 10 losses the team suffered
in 2007, five of them were by just
one goal, including a pair of 1-0
Ken White | Assistant coach
losses to ranked opponents Ohio
State and Michigan State, who at
MENS SOCCER
petition is far from a controversy.
the time were No. 19 and No. 24
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
a
camaraderie
respectively.
GLANCE
amongst
us
goalkeepers.
We all
How the Falcons finished the
LAST SEASON: 6-10-3 (2-2-1
hang out, we all have a good
2007 season, as well as how they
MAC)
time,â&#x20AC;? Petkus said.
looked in the spring, also points to
Shoemaker echoed this sentigreener pastures.
OUTLOOK: After finishing
ment, saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a really
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can take our momentum
fourth in the MAC last season,
healthy competition. Me and
from the spring season and bring
the team will be challenged
Brent always push each other in
it right into the fall,â&#x20AC;? Goalie Brent
through its schedule as they face
practice, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be real solid at
Petkus said.
three top 25 teams.
the positionâ&#x20AC;?.
The team finished the 2007 season by winning three consecuAlong with all of these signs that
tive games before being knocked starters. The Falcons shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t point to a promising new season,
out of the MAC tournament by have too much of a problem itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also important that this years
Northern Illinois. In those three plugging the holes left by Sandy team appears to have more confiwins, the Falconsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; offense per- Abiola, Alec Perea and Dusko dence than in years past.
formed the best it had all year, out- Topolic. With the mixture of some
Petkus, Shoemaker and White
key veterans and the injection all believe the sky is the limit for
scoring their opponents 9-3.
In those three games, two play- of some talented international this season, Petkus even saying
ers, Cameron Hepple and Hunter players like Serbian newcomer that a MAC championship is
Van Houten, emerged as potential Vuk Krkelijic, who White believes
stars for the upcoming season. In â&#x20AC;&#x153;can step up to the next levelâ&#x20AC;?, the
the three-game stretch, Hepple Falcons shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t suffer from the
notched one goal and three assists, loss of three starters.
The teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest question
while Van Houten finished with
mark to date is the matter of who
two goals and two assists.
Van Houten also played well will be the opening day starter at
in the spring as the Falcons went the goalie position.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The goalie position, right
2-0-4 in games against the likes of
now, is 100 percent up for grabs,â&#x20AC;?
Michigan State and Xavier.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hunter Van Houten is doing a White said.
Petkus, along with fellow senior
great job of leading our team this
Paul Shoemaker and sophomore
year,â&#x20AC;? Petkus said.
Van Houten, who has been Steven Topper are the three candiselected as a captain for the dates vying for the starting role.
One thing about this situation is
upcoming season, will serve as the
leader of a team that returns eight obvious, however, is that this com-

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not a program that I think other
teams have on their schedule, that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re
looking forward to playing.â&#x20AC;?

Helped team to
three-game winning
streak last year.

Cameron
Hepple
Helped team to
three-game winning
streak last year.
within the realm of possibility.
Standing in their way will be a
host of talented MAC opponents,
lead by the University of Akron,
which currently sits at No.12 in the
preseason polls.
The team will play two exhibition games against Oakland and
Cleveland State before traveling
to Tampa, FL on Aug. 30 to meet
the South Florida Bulls, Whiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Alma Mater and former team,
who are pitted at No. 18 in the
preseason polls.
After being tested in the opener, the Falcons will travel to two
tournaments before making
their home debut in the BGSU
Invitational tournament on
September 19.
The biggest game on the schedule will be played at home against
Akron on October 11. The Falcons
will certainly hope to experience

some of the home field advantage
they had last year, when they finished with a winning record within the friendly confines of Mickey
Cochrane Stadium.
However, the new season turns
out, there is one certainty: these
Falcons are confident, experienced, talented and determined,
and will either have their first winning season under Thompson, or
go down swinging.

11

THE
HUNT
From Page 9

and very feared around the conference and we are looking to her
to be a key player.â&#x20AC;?
Yee paced all players last year
with 13 points and was followed closely by Stacey Lucas
and Meagan Moran, who had 12
points each.
As for other top performers
from last year: All MAC freshman selections: Alexa Arsenault,
Jackie Tamerlano and Moran,
more of the same is expected.
The starting spot at goalkeeper
will be no guarantee either with
three different players: senior,
Christy Zabek, Arsenault and
freshman Becca Ison all vying for
the position.
Andy Richards | Coach
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can see that being quite a
fight this year.â&#x20AC;?
With the beginning of the seaours â&#x20AC;Ś Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that experience that
really helps you out,â&#x20AC;? he said of son just days away, the injury
the returning players. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have report is clear with the exception
of a few minor injuries and the
a lot of options this year.â&#x20AC;?
And mix in a little old with the team fitness level is up to par,
new the addition of 10 freshman, according to Richards.
With an intersquad scrimstrong leadership from team
captains: Brianne Eisenhard mage last Sunday serving as a
and Susan Hunter, three 2007 All- pre-cursor to Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s match,
MAC freshman team players and Richards hopes that coaching
one 2nd team All-MAC selection on the practice field will transand the recipe for BG Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fer better to the playing field in
comparison to what he saw at
soccer is complete.
Richards expects two to four of the scrimmage.
After the Cincinnati match,
the rookies to push for a starting
spot with an additional three or the Falconsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; will follow up with
four to compete for positions several challenging opponents
to complete their non-conferlater in the season.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Top to bottom itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably ence schedule with away games
one of the most talented rosters at Oakland and Ohio State, a
home match against Michigan
weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever had.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;And that means there is com- State and other matches against:
petition for every place and those IPFW, Tennessee Tech, Marshall,
players who are on the field know Detroit and Xavier before MAC
theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got someone breathing play begins.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We schedule it for a reason â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to
down their neck and those who
are on the bench know theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve challenge the players in the program,â&#x20AC;? Richards said, with a twogot a shot if all goes well.â&#x20AC;?
With much competition pronged goal in mind: getting
being had for each starting spot, the team ready for conference
Richards and his staff look for play and also preparing them for
senior Corbie Yee, a 2007 second similar opponents if the team
qualifies for the NCAA tournateam MAC selection, to shine.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Corbie is a huge talent ment at the end of the season.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be
a strength of ours ...
It is that experience
that really helps
you out. We have
a lot of options
this year.â&#x20AC;?